{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-amendment-northern-ireland-order-2004/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2004/703",
  "legislation_title": "The Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rates-amendment-northern-ireland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2004.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint.\n(3) This Article and Article 2 come into operation on the day after the day on which this Order is made.\n(4) The Department shall not make an order under paragraph (2) in respect of the following provisions unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly—\n(a) Article 3(1); and\n(b) Article 9(2) and (3) and paragraph (1) of that Article so far as it relates to paragraph 1 of Schedule 3.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) substituted (14.12.2009) by Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8), ss. 4(2)(a), 19(1); S.R. 2009/375, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "partly exercised by SR 2004/147"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(4) substituted (14.12.2009) by Rates (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 8), ss. 4(2)(b), 19(1); S.R. 2009/375, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2004/703/article/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}